![]() ![]() It’s an unusual (but welcome) message to put in a Disney film: Sometimes your parents mean well, but each person has to take charge of their own life and decide what’s best for them. They genuinely think they’re doing what’s best for both their children, and yet they screw things up (forgive the pun) royally. They’re not the stepmother from Snow White. Frozen got on my good side by doing several things I didn’t expect (there was a plot twist about three-quarters of the way through that made everyone in the theater gasp), and the way it portrays family is one of them: Elsa and Anna’s parents aren’t evil. Elsa is the protagonist of her own story, one in which well-meaning parents taught her to rein in emotion for her own good. Watching the trailer it’s easy to assume that Elsa is the villain of the story, a sorcerer-gone-bad who has to be convinced by her pure-hearted sister to return to the light side of the Force.īut that’s not how it is at all. The two main characters are Anna ( Kristen Bell) and Elsa ( Idina Menzel), the former a delightfully weird princess (“We finish each other’s sandwiches!”), the latter a Queen who’s suffered isolation her whole life because it’s thought-first by her parents, then by her-that being around other people will make it impossible to control her icebending. ![]() I welcome any and all spoilery discussion in the comments, so if you’ve not seen the film yet just don’t scroll down that far.)įrozen is something new for Disney: A movie about sisterhood. There are vague references to plot events, but nothing specific. But it smashed Disney Animation’s opening weekend record, and the comments on that post were filled with you, our readers, saying how wonderful it is. You know the film’s going to make bank, because it’s a kid’s movie on a holiday weekend. Not “better than you think it is” or “pretty good, considering.” Just great. I started seeing reviews about how great Frozen is. Then, a few weeks ago, something weird happened. That weird quote about animating women didn’t help, nor did controversy over the visual similarity between Anna and Tangled‘s Rapunzel. Disney didn’t market it much at all, which made me suspicious of secret suckitude. ![]()
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